Archives / Year: 2010
10 Excellent Tools For Creating Web Design Wireframes
"Using Balsamiq Mockups feels like you are drawing, but it’s digital, so you can tweak and rearrange controls easily, and the end result is much cleaner. With 75 pre-built...
By Peldi
Weekly Release: Lots and Lots of Bug Fixes
Hello friends! Marco here doing the release this week, as Peldi is in Austin for SXSWi, a.k.a. geek sleep-away-camp. 😉 I can't wait to hear his report! And while...
By Marco
12 Free Or Cheap Web Apps Your Startup Needs Now
“Balsamiq is a very popular app for making mockups of various apps, and rightfully so. It's fun and easy to use, and saves a lot of time.”
By Peldi
And the UXLx Winner Is...
The upcoming UXLx Conference (May 12-14 in Lisbon) is a wonderful chance for Usability folks to hear some of our favorite speakers and meet like-minded experts who believe, like...
By Val
Our Spring 2010 Travel Plans
Hi everyone. We are all heads down making a TON of progress on all areas of our business: the website, the product, the web app, our internal processes...it's awesome....
By Peldi
Install and Update Usability
One of the nice things about working in a small, flat organization is that you have to do support. With no levels of hierarchy and everyone monitoring support, communication...
By Mike
UX Design in the Open
Today marks a new chapter in the ongoing evolution of Balsamiq. In the spirit of openness and transparency that you've come to know from the crew at Balsamiq, Michae...
By Mike
Mike's 5 Jobs
Hi again. Thanks so much everyone for all the nice words following yesterday's announcement.... we're all super-excited as well! 🙂 In this post we'd like to give you a...
By Peldi
Michael Angeles Joins Balsamiq
I can barely contain my excitement as I type this, so I'll get right to it: Michael Angeles, the man behind Konigi and one of the people I look...
By Peldi
Help Us Design the “Components” Feature
This new feature, called "Symbols", has been released with Mockups 2.0 The ability to create components and re-use them across different mockups is one of our most highly requested...
By Peldi
Weekly Release: Updated Certificate, Bug Fixes
Hello friends. This week's release is pretty light-weight as we've been focusing on MyBalsamiq, our web app. Reactions to our first public screencast of the app were very kind,...
By Peldi
Happy Birthday, BalsamiqMarco!
I woke up to the news that today was Marco's birthday. He's already logged off for dinner, so we decided to throw him a little virtual surprise party, complete...
By Val
A Sneak Peek at myBalsamiq, Our Web App
Hi there! Just a quick post to let you know that I finally got around to recording a quick tour of myBalsamiq, the upcoming Balsamiq Mockups Web App. The...
By Peldi
Weekly Release: Flash Player 10 and More
Hi all! Once again, not a huge release since we're working full-time on myBalsamiq, which is getting another beta refresh today. Still, we were able to fix some bugs...
By Peldi
Weekly Release: Fixed the "Jump" Bug, Improved Performance, Fancy Duplicate, 2 New Control Types
Hello friends! Once again we've been mostly focused on myBalsamiq this past week but we were able to fix a few bugs here and there, as well as sneaking...
By Peldi
50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits
“Mockups To Go is a user-contributed collection of ready-to-use UI components and design patterns that were built using Balsamiq Mockups. You can download all of the components and design...
By Peldi
At Balsamiq, Everyone Blogs. Join Us.
The Balsamiq Blog is my third blog. I started in 2003 with Peldi's Little Blog in which I shared sample applications and things that I learned at work about...
By Peldi
Switch Story of Peldi Guilizzoni: From 0 To 15,000 Customers in 29 Months!
My interview for Switch Story.
By Peldi
New Release: a Mockups Viewer and Bug Fixes
Hello everyone! It's only been two weeks since our last little release, but it feels much longer for some reason. We've been really busy. How have you been? We...
By Peldi
My Seat at the Chef's Table
Since college, my job title has gone from Administrative Assistant to Chief Operating Officer. I have seen and learned a great deal, and not just about technology. It's been a wild...
By Val
Luis Arias Joins Balsamiq
It is my great pleasure to introduce to you the newest member of the Balsamiq team, monsieur Luis Arias, Web Programmer Extraordinaire. 🙂 If you've been following us for...
By Peldi
First Release of 2010: Draggable Tabs and Bug Fixes
Hello friends! Welcome to our first release of 2010. Let's get right to it! 🙂 New, Draggable Tabs! The ability to drag the mockup tabs at the bottom of...
By Peldi
Balsamiq Roadmap for 2010
This is part two of a two-part post about what happened in 2009 and our plans for 2010. We did this last year as well, it's becoming somewhat of...
By Peldi
A Look Back at 2009
Wow. Just wow. It's hard for me to believe how much has happened in Balsamiq-land in 2009. I feel like a completely different person than when I wrote the...
By Peldi